The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Water’s never clumsy.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Nature abhors annihilation.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.